Samuel carmin



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S. CARMIN.

GATE.

No. 584,324. x I Patented June 15, 1897 Wifgzssas llirnn STATES SAMUELCARMIIY, OF \VARREN, INDIANA.

GATE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent N 0. 584,324, dated June 15,1897. Application filed April 9, 1897. Serial No. 631,414. (No model.)

To mi], whom to may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL CARMIN, a citizen of the United States,residing at lVarren, in the county of Huntington and State of Indiana,have invented a new and useful Gate, of which the following is aspecification.

The invention relates to improvements in gates.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction ofswinging gates, more especially the mechanism for opening and closingthe same, and to provide an operating device which will be positive andreliable and adapted to enable a gate to be readily opened, locked in anopen position, and closed after a person has passed through it withoutnecessitating his dismounting or leaving a vehicle.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination andarrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a gate constructed inaccordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same,the gate being open. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view on line 3 3 ofFig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view taken longitudinally of theoperating mechanism, illustrating the construction of thelatch-operating device.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in the severalfigures of the drawings.

1 designates a swinging gate constructed in any suitable manner andhinged to a post 2, and it is provided at its top with arearwardlyextending arm 3, disposed at an angle to the gate andconnected with a reciprocating operating-bar 4, whereby when the latteris moved longitudinally the gate will be swung to open or close it,according to the direction in which the reciprocating operating-bar i ismoved. The outer end of the operating-bar 4 is pivoted to a lever 5 andits inner end is connected with a similar leve'r6 by a bar 7, but acontinuous operating-bar may be provided, if desired. The levers 5 andG, which are located at opposite sides of the gate, are disposedsubstantially vertically when the latter is closed and they are fulcrumed between their ends on posts 7 and 8. The upper and lower endsof the lovers are provided with handles, the lower ones being withinconvenient reach of a person on foot and the upper ones being adapted tobe readily grasped by a person on horseback or in a vehicle withoutnecessitating dismounting or leaving the vehicle.

Theinner end of the operating-bar 4 is provided with a horizontal slot 9to receive the arm 3 of the gate, and it has a vertical slot 10, throughwhich passes a pin 11, that connects the operating-bar and the arm 3. Byarranging the pivot-pin 11 in the slot 10 the reciprocatingoperating-bar is permitted a limited longitudinal movement independentof the arm 3 to enable itbefore actuating the gate to depress alatch-lever 12 and disengage a latch-bar 13 from a keeper 14 of alatch-post 15. The latch-bar 13, which is disposed substantiallyhorizontally, is pivoted to the gate in the usual manner at its rearend, and its front end, which is arranged within a keeper 16, is engagedby a spring 17 ,which is adapted to force the latch downward and hold itin engagement with the keeper 14.

The latch-lever 12, which is disposed hori- -zontally, is fulcrumedbetween its ends on the gate and has its front end connected by alink-bar 18 with the latch 13, and the rear portion of the lever 12,which is rounded to provide a beveled upper face, is engaged by adepending flange 19, carried by the operating-bar 4. The flange 19 issubstantially triangular, being provided with oppositely-beveled loweredges, the inner end being abruptly inclined, as shown, to lift thelatch before the operating mechanism acts on the gate to swing the same.

The gate opens only in one direction, and the operating-lever 5 isdesigned to be located a sufficient distance beyond the same to preventthe gate in opening from coming in contact with a team. The latch-post15 is provided with a vertical stop-flange 20, and a short post or stake21 is provided to limit the opening swing of the gate, which is lockedor held in its open position by a supplemental latch 22, mounted on thereciprocating operating-bar. The latch 22,which is constructed of asingle piece of resilient material, consists of a substantially straightshank and a de pending curved arm located at the outer end of the shankand arranged to engage a recess 23 of the top of the gate. The recess,which has slightly-beveled side edges, is adapted to be readilydisengaged from the supplemental latch, which does not, owing to itscurvature, have to be lifted by hand, but may be readily sprung upwardby the closing of the gate and with the force necessary to actuate thelatter.

It will be seen that the operating mechanism is positive and reliable,that it is adapted to be readily applied to any ordinary swinging gate,and that it will enable the gate to be readily opened and closed at adistance from it without dismounting from a horse or leaving a vehicle.

Changes in the form, proportion, and minor details of construction maybe resorted to Without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any ofthe advantages of this invention.

WVhat I claim is- 1. The combination with a swinging gate, of areciprocating operating-bar arranged at the back of the gate andconnected with and adapted to swing the same, a latch, a latchleverconnected with the latch and extending rearward from the gate, and aflange depending from the operating-bar and arranged to engage anddepress the latch-lever, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination with a gate provided with a rearwardly-extending arm,of a reciprocating operating-bar located at the back of the gate and.connected with said arm and having a limited longitudinal movementindependent of the same, a latch, a horizontal latch-lever connectedwith the latch and extending beneath the operating-bar, and anoppositely-beveled flange depending from the operating bar and arrangedto engage the latch-lever, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a swinging gate provided with arearwardly-extending arm, a reciprocating operating-bar having ahorizontal slot and a vertical slot, a pivot-pin arranged in thevertical slot and pivoting said arm in the horizontal slot, a latch, ahorizontal latchlever connected with the latch, an oppositelybeveledflange depending from the operatingbar and arranged to engage thelatch-lever, and operating-levers located at opposite sides of the gateand connected with and adapted to actuate the operating-bar,substantially as described.

4. The combination of a swinging gate provided at its top with a recess,a reciprocating operating-bar connected with the gate and adapted toactuate the same, and a resilient latch mounted on the operating-bar andconsisting of a shank, and a depending arm arranged to engage the recessof the gate when the latter is open, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL CARMIN.

W'itnesses:

DANIEL CARPENTER, LEWIS O. GARMIN.

